Art
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Between Leaving and Returning by Shama Shams
Shama Shams is a writer, storyteller, and memoirist based in Seattle. Her work explores identity, immigration, womanhood, and the quiet resilience shaped by lived experience. She is the author of She Called Me Throwaway, which received the Top Choice award from NBR, and the forthcoming Dreamers, a collection centered on migration and belonging, is scheduled… Continue reading
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Somewhere in Asia Minor by Gordon Massman
Gordon Massman’s work is represented by Ro Gallery in NY and has been featured in magazines across the world including Berlin, Barcelona, Toronto, Florence, NY, Lisbon, London, among others. Continue reading
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Dwelling by Kelly DuMar
Kelly DuMar is a poet, playwright, photographer and workshop facilitator. She’s author of four poetry collections. Her poems are published in Bellevue Literary Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Thrush and more. Her images have been featured on the cover of Josephine Quarterly, About Place, Synkroniciti, Feral, Cool Beans Lit, Young Ravens Literary Review, Etymology, Confetti and Atlantic… Continue reading
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Hovering Without Wings by Bill Wolak
Bill Wolak has just published his nineteenth book of poetry entitled What Love Calms Only With Nakedness with Expeditions International Publishing House. His collages and photographs have appeared as cover art for such magazines as Phoebe, The Passionfruit Review, Inside Voice, and Barfly Poetry Magazine. Continue reading
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Artwork by JJ Cromer
JJ CROMER is a self-taught artist from Virginia. His work is in many public collections, including the American Visionary Art Museum, the Intuit Center of Outsider Art, the High Museum of Art, and the Taubman Museum of Art. He and his family live on a farm in central Appalachia, where they have kept chickens, ducks,… Continue reading
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Artwork by Najib Joe Hakim
Najib Joe Hakim is a working documentary photographer, artist and photography instructor. Hakim also serves as the President of the Board for the Network of Photographers for Palestine and is a founding member of Class Conscious Photographers. He is the recipient of the Rebuilding Alliance Storytellers Award for a trilogy of projects on Palestine, a… Continue reading
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Algal Storm by Willy Conley
Willy Conley, an award-winning, published photographer, writer and filmmaker, is the author of Space is deaf like me, Photographic Memories, Plays of Our Own, Visual-Gestural Communication, The World of White Water, Listening Through the Bone, The Deaf Heart, and Vignettes of the Deaf Character and Other Plays. Born profoundly deaf, Conley is a professor emeritus… Continue reading
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As If By Fate by Chris D’Errico
Chris D’Errico’s writings, music & visual art have appeared in various analog & digital mediums for the last three decades. He has worked as a line cook, a neon sign maker, and an exterminator, among other vocational adventures. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, D’Errico lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. Active in the Vegas art, poetry and… Continue reading
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Photography by Michael Peterson
Michael Peterson is a retired physician, husband, dad, and grandpa. He now works on the family cattle ranch in rural central Utah. He likes reading, writing, printmaking and photography with a Holga camera. Continue reading
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Artwork by Shane Camoin
Shane Camoin, a second generation American, was born in Los Angeles and raised in Salt Lake City. Along with winning awards for creative writing and visual arts, Shane has lectured on language and identity at symposiums and conferences throughout Asia, Europe, and North America. Continue reading
January House Literary Journal 